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Marqueterie

A contemporary marqueterie effect for a combined side table/console with hidden drawers. © Mario Ga...

Paris

Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

Digital Biology

Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...

Charles Tassin

Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...

Le Drugstore Brand Identity

Design&Practice designed the brand identity for the newly opened restaurant "Le Drugstore," with int...

Franz Kline

Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...

The Menu

The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...

Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni

Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...

A Flat Named Desire

An inspirational collection of interior objects.

Jean Lurçat

Jean Lurcat, painter, poet and ceramicist, great renovator of contemporary French tapestry, produced...

Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work

There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...

Peter Zumthor: Thinking Architecture

A selection of remarkable work by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

Struth: Nature & Politics

Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...

In Orbit

"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...

Eric Giraudet de Boudemange

Eric Giraudet de Boudemange (1983) graduated in 2007 from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris ...

Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...

The Glass House

"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...

Francois Morellet 1926 - 2016

Since he first began making work in the 1950s, Morellet has been engaged in creating work which has ...

Design & Politics

Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...

Xavier Antin: Printing at Home

A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process. Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...

BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/D" design Enzo Mari

DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron and Murano Glass Vase, Limited Edition of 6, numbered and signed by th...

BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/A" design Enzo Mari

DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron fruit-bowl Limited Edition of 4, numbered and signed by the Author Enz...

BASILE ARTECO "Monoblocco/L" design Donata Paruccini

DESIGN DONATA PARUCCINI: pen holder

Jean-Jaques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...

Rayan Ayash

Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.

Amor Vacui

Domink von Moos, born 1990, studied architecture at ETH Zurich.

Carreaux

Turn of the century tile and mosaic samples from the Societe Generale de Carrelages in Paris.

Slimane

Hedi Slimane was the creative director for Dior Homme. He is currently creative director for Saint L...

Small Buildings

Photographer Eric Tabuchi, born 1959, lives and works in Paris.

The end of history - La fin de l´histoire

"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...

Tamara

Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...

Royère

Jean Royère (1902-1981) worked in the import-export business before working for cabinetmaker Pierr...

Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler

“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...

Harrison and Abramovitz

Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, who worked independently in New York in a partnershi...

Conformity

“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939. After studying drama at the Unive...

Télémaque

Hervé Télémaque naît à Port-au-Prince, le 5 novembre 1937. En 1957, il quitte Haïti pour New Y...

A+A Cooren

A+A Cooren is a Paris-based French-Japanese design studio founded in 1999 and run by husband and wif...

Mass, space, plane and line

"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...

Serge Mouille

Serge Mouille (1922-1988) studied under Gilbert Lacroix at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris. ...

Damien Coupeté images

paintings

Pascal Häusermann

Pascal Häusermann was born 19th of November 1936 in Biel, Switzerland. He studied at the School of...

Janine Abraham & Dirk Jan Rol

Janine Abraham took classes at the Ecole Camondo, trained at Jean-René and Maxime Old Caillette, an...

Orange mecanique

Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...

Excentrique/Beware

Daniel Buren : Excentrique, work in situ, Grand Palais, Paris, 2012. Text: Daniel Buren, excerpts fr...

André Bloc - Sculptures Habitacles

From 1962 to 1966, André Bloc created his habitable sculptures. This work marks the evolution of th...

Eleni Karpatsi & Julio Calvo = (fos)

Eleni Karpatsi and Julio Calvo are (fos), working in the fields of architecture and interior design ...

Charles Negre

Charles Negre is an independent studio photographer living and working in Paris.

Harry Seidler

Harry Seidler was born in Vienna in 1923 as son of Rose and Max Seidler. Rose was able to pursue her...

L´Imparfaite by VLF

VLF studio is Thomas Cristiani and Antoine Roux in Paris.

Life Is Electric. Philippe Weisbecker

Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First worki...

Domestique

Face à une appropriation sous contrôle et une perte progressive des mécanismes d'interaction entr...

Voiture

C´est un travail sur l´expérience et l´émotion du passager dans une voiture d´un futur proche,...

ice

Ice hotels in Norway, Finland and Sweden

France 1661

Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661

Antonio Sant´Elia: The house of concrete, glass and steel

"No architecture has existed since 1700. A moronic mixture of the most various stylistic elements us...

Gio Ponti, Architetto

Gio Ponti (born Nov. 18, 1891, Milan, Italy—died Sept. 15, 1979, Milan) graduated in 1921 from the...

Technological Exaptation

Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...

Parisian Still Lifes

Photographer Romain Bernardie James, born 1980, lives and works in Paris.

Absalon: Cellules

Cellules d'habitation: 6 residential modules of 9 square metres, designed to fit in 6 major cities (...

Urban Robot: The early works of 伊東 豊雄 Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄) was born 1 June 1941 in Seoul, Korea to Japanese parents. In 1943, he moved...

Softer

Softer than Steel: Nendo for Desalto.

Le Corbusier: Original Interiors

A selection of original interiors by Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier).

Volkswagen Jetta

Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...

Naturoscopie

Habité par un héritage de l’art nouveau, Noé Duchaufour Lawrance s’appuie non seulement sur l...

White Rooms

Photographer Wouter Hogendorp from Den Haag documents the beauty of architectural details: light, th...

Hans Poelzig: Architecture as Gesamtkunstwerk

Architect Hans Poelzig (1869 – 1936) was an eclectic visionary. He worked with sculptural effects,...